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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
He doesn't want a trade war and never said he does.
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Actions speak louder than words.
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The very fact that he does a a lot of importing for his clothing line is telling you he knows very well that the playing field is not level. That's why jobs and investment have been moving away from the US. That's what he's trying to fix.
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So he didn't want to pay the price of standing up for his principles, but he wants us to pay it.
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If you fix the trade deficits, that means we are exporting more and importing less. That means we are manufacturing more, adding more jobs, and investing in ourselves instead of slowly selling ourselves off to foreigners that hold all those dollars.
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No, it doesn't. It means that consumer prices go up and consumer buying power decreases. The added jobs in the protected industries are insignificant compared to the lost jobs in the down stream companies that use the goods, steel in this case, as inputs.
How is getting German auto companies to invest here and create jobs for Americans, both in those plants and in the provision of products and services to them, "selling ourselves off"?
